Harley MS 7376

This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three parts appear to have been joined together in the Harleian Library.

Contents:

ff. 1r-42v: An inventory of the money, jewellery, and other goods previously belonging to Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII that were delivered to Queen Mary I [Mary Tudor] (r. 1553-1558) in 1553, beginning: ‘A Book conteyning suche Money, Juelles, golde, stone, perle and other stuffe, as were delyvered to thandes of our Sovereigne lady Quene Mary, the xxth of August, in the first yere of hir graces reigne by the lorde Marques of winchestre Lord Treasurour of Englande, whyche were parcell of suche Money, Juelles, golde, stone, perle and other stuffe, as did remayne in the custodie of the said Lorde Treasurour to hir highnes use as hereafter in xxv leaves and one side of paper written as particulerly mentioned. That is to saie: The Quenes Juelles late in the Custodie of the last Quene Katherine and by hir delyvered to the use of our late Sovereigne lorde King Edwarde the Sixte in the first yere of his highnes reigne’.

ff. 44r-58v: A fragment of a 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent [foliated separately as ff. 173 to 190], featuring a letter by Stephen Alard, concerning his foundation of a chapel at the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury at Winchelsea in 1312 at the beginning.

f. 59r: A title-inscription: ‘Kantie’.

ff. 60r-61v: An alphabetical index of the hundreds in Kent.

f. 62r: An introduction, beginning: ‘Transcriptum particulare compoti Collectorum Auxilii 40 s. de quolibet feodo Militis R. Edwardo tertio concessi, ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, in Comitatu Cantiae, anno regni fui vicesimo’.

ff. 63r-220v: Tax payments from the hundreds in Kent.

Decoration:

1 large initial with cadels in black ink (f. 62r) and smaller initials with minor decoration in black ink throughout the first and third parts of the manuscript. Small (one-line) capitals and display script in brown ink highlighted in red, and red paraph marks throughout the second part.